Up at the crack of dawn!
Well 5am anyway to meet Mark and drive down to Cambridgeshire to drop Mark’s VW Passat off at Rayvern Hydraulics for a air ride install.
You wont believe what a joy it is to drive at that time in the morning hardly a soul around an you can just cruise. But they like there speed cameras in Cambridgeshire glad i had my sat nav as the speed limits were all over the place and someone not used to the area could easily be caught out.
We got there bang on 8am which was what Ray had asked as he likes to give his customers 100% attention so that Mark could spec out exactly what he wanted and were he wanted it. HAd a good chat to Ray as well great guy really passionate about his work and some cool looking motors there to including the slammed Jetta.
Ray recons he’ll get a 4 inch drop on the Passat which will put it on the floor! He also said that Mark’s B6 Passat was going to be the first one on air in the UK scratch one for Mark! The Passat also got a set of new 19″ rims to go on it which are going to look sweet.
Now we have the torture of waiting a week till we can get up again at 5am (you owe me big style Mark!) to drive down and pick it up. I cant wait to see what the ride quality is like and get some photo’s.
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Wheel Whoring
Well I’m a wheel whore I admit it I like nice rims! So if a set of wheels appear that need a bit of work I’m always willing to have a look. At the start of the year a set of 18″ Mercedes Avantguards came up on Edition 38 that had been paint stripped but needed finishing off. So I stripped them down and gave them to Rainbow Polishers to have mirror polished. Rainbow did an amazing job they looked the business but, I was going to have some stretched rubber put on them then put them on my MK5 Golf.
But I’m only keeping the Golf till early next year when I’ll be having my mom’s A3 so there’s no real point in doing much to it. So I was thinking of selling the Mercedes rims until a set of Audi A6 BBS split rims showed up on Edition 38. I pm’d the guy selling them and asked if he was interested in a straight swap for my mercs which he agreed to so now I have these 19″ x 9″ BBS rims for the Audi.
They need stripping and polishing so they will be off to Rainbow in the near future I’ll post the finished result when there done.
Polishing Mercedes Rims
Well i’m going to have a go at polishing a set of Mercedes rims i’ve had sitting around for a couple of months. There off a CL 600 S600 coupe, so i’m buying a small sander and brought a polishing set of a guy on Edition 38. I’ll post the progress and results!